Judges 17:6
In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did as seemed right to him.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 36:31And these are the kings who were ruling in the land of Edom before there was any king over the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 33:5And there was a king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel came together.
Judges 19:1Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was living in the inmost parts of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he got for himself a servant-wife from Beth-lehem-judah.
Judges 21:25In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did what seemed right to him.
Proverbs 12:15The way of the foolish man seems right to him? but the wise man gives ear to suggestions.
Proverbs 16:2All a man's ways are clean to himself; but the Lord puts men's spirits into his scales.
Matthew Henry on Judges 17:2-7
Micah and His Gods. ( b. c. 1406.) 1 And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah. 2 And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the Lord , my son. 3 And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the Lord from my hand for my… Read the whole commentary →